Two male authors, in two different contexts, imagined their female protagonists: Kostas Tachtsis, a prolific Greek author and himself a homosexual, wrote a novel on a woman\u27s endurance in the challenging and dangerous Greek political urban context over a period of some 50 years, under the title Third Wreath ("The Third Wedding Wreath", 1962); Serbian author Dragoslav Mihajlović, a former pro-soviet sympathizer and political prisoner on Goli Otok, at the half-way point to his present-day nationalism, wrote the novel Petria\u27s Wreath (1975), in which a rural female protagonist is a suffering icon – beaten, ill, poor, abandoned, widowed, a metaphor for collective, people\u27s suffering. In both cases, a feminine persona is supposed to dec...